THE NEWS. The jury in the Mead murder case, at Wau. paca, Wisconsin, after a brief charge by Judge Bardeen, and in twenty-four minutes returned a verdict of not guilty as to all of the defend- ante, Sam Stout, Charles A, Priorand Edwin C. Bronson.——The Aspen,Col., miners have appealed to Grand MasterWorkman Powderly to unite the laboring classes in their interest and incidentally of the free-silver people, — Agents Thompson and Calder, of the Cana- dian Pacific Railway, Tacoma, Wash,, to answer to the indictment by the United States grand jury for cutting rates contrary to the inter-state commorce law. Both entered pleas of ‘‘not guilty,” and their trial was set for November, ——— In the Un!ted States Court at Atlanta, Ga, the attorney for the Central Trust Company filed a bill to foreclose a fourteen million five hundred thousand dollar mortgage on Georgia Pacific Railroad. This is part of a reorganization scheme, Wm. La Forge, of Kingston, N. Y., is charged with murdering Henry A. Hoffman, of the his young wife, — mitted suicide while troubled with cholia, Wm, Dixon, an of assualt,—— Three ¥rank Lundgren, of young men, sons Genesee, Il, aged, re were drowned in Green river by the capsia ing of a boat, Senator Edward B. Osborne, teenth New York district, died in Albany, <= In a battle between miners at Weir City, Kan. sides were injured. strikers and killed, Warden Brooklyn, four were Patrick Wright, of the Western tentiary, that the statement he made Wed- persons confessed to Pennsylvania Peni- Gallager nesday to the district attorney was false, and that he, Beatty Davidson were guilty as indicted. of the various cotton mills in New England is a precautionary to prevent the Dempsey, and The closing down measure accumulation of goods during the autumn, —Large consignments of Sumatra tobacco, which was unde: valued, was seized at Phila- delphia tough and gambler at Paducab, Ky., snatched Rodney Gray, a nortorious negro a sum of money from one of five men and attempted to run away. He was overtaken and literally beaten or buteher=d to death io a ravine near the city limits, killed Pittaburg Maggie and Emma Pixler was trolley At Laughuoy tried to start ing oil as kindling. lowed. The roof of off, and Mrs, burning oil. Her husband sue tinguishing the fire, but in Pittsburg by a Mrs. 1 her kitehen A terrific explosion fol- the Laughny Car. fire, us- kitchen was blown was covered with sweded in ex- until his wile had been fatally burned. Negroes near Neelyvilie, Mo., having been warned to leave the stay to defend their rights, and are —. Isaac Jenkins, country by whites, will arming. colored, was left for dead on a tree by a lynching party near leamon's Station, Va., but despite wounds able to cut himself down and crawl folk. ~The Charles Langford, of St. Paul, who jously disappeared a year ago, was found in foot tunnel which the boy had burrowed near his father’s home, — The unidentified bodies of aboy and a middle-aged man were found near Wharton, I. T.. pear the railroad, riddled with Yullets, probably put in them on Funday. Their team grazed near by. Conrad Esser, Jr, piture dealer at Lima, O., bas failed. assets will probably exceed the liabilities The MeNamara Dry Denver, one of the Went, was steamer Emily was wrecked in Coos Ohio, and, while drifting into the Lire had her passengers and crew rescued, one exception, by the life-saving Charles Rolipson was washed overboard, A body supposed to be thatof I. L. B. Olds, state senator in Montana, was found in Boulder river.——Tom King, the escaped horse thie! who was captured at Guthrie, O. T., bas proven to bea woman, - in the Rio Grande yarde at Pueblo went out on strike, demanding the discharge of Yard- master Crocker, who, they say, is tyrannical and ynreasonable. Toe men declare the his was Nor. twelve-year-old, 10 body of a myster- a one hundred and fifty fu Ths Goods Company jargest houses in closed on attachment. with EW, jess their demands are complied with, —— Thomas E. Walsh, president of the Univer- sity of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Ind., died, ——The People’s Savings, the Savings Banks, of Denver, closed their doors. Avenue Banks, of Kansas City, suspended. we Michael Lanzoni stabbed Antonio beck three times in South Mount Vernon, N. Y., inflicting probably fatal wounds. Carlos Roabeek in trying to save his brother, was seriously cut about the bands and arms Lanzonl has been arrested At Manchester, N. H., the Namaske bag mills closed —— Some girls in Edison's lamp works, at Newark, N, J., struck for higher wages, — The Lark Alice Reed arrived at the Delaware Breakwater with yellow [fever aboard, ——Joseph De Peyster, a noted gam- bler, was killed in Obio county, Ky., by an unknown miner, —The body of Mrs. Henry Bailey, one of the Sotherland Sisters, was turied at Lockport, N. Y.——At Indianapo- lis, Lopez Munaugh, a worthless and disso- lute cigarmaker, shot his divorced wife's ais- ter, Miss Mary Winsch, and then killed him- self ——-At Lawrence, Mass, Gates Hall fatally shot Abram Mills, The remains of Anthony J. Drexel were buried in Woodlands Cemetery, near Philadelphia ~The resi dence of John Ulrich, of North Falrmount, Ohio, was burned by the explosion of a gaso- line stove, and Mr, Ulrich was fatally burned while his wife and five-year-old child were seriously injured. KILLED IN A FACTORY. Four Lives Lost by the Explosion of & Can of Naphthee A pan of naphtha exploded in the sweats band factory of J. D. Campbell, 211 Wal- worth street, Brooklyn, N.Y. killing four persons and injuring another, The bullding was completely wreokad, It was a two-story frame structure. There wero twelve persons employed in the factory but all excepting the five named were in the basement and escaped without injury. The noise of the explosion was heard several Books an, and caused consternation in neighborhood. : EEW PEOPLE AT THE PAIR ra ———— AAO Not a Drawing Card. The Injunction to Keep the Gates Ope Not Vacated, not show any improvement upon other Sun- substantial way. Tbe morning was uncomfortably warm and the suitry air in the vast Park walking and sight-seeing a laborious task, A phere on few degrees and during the after. poon the turnstiles ut the pay gates recorded the advent of many visitors who formed the principal crowds of the day. The pass gates were almost entirely ignor- ed, the holders of the photographie privil- of pasteboard bearing the words, one, benefit sufferers from the Cold fire.” or usiug their passes and depositing 4 gilver half-dotlar in the receptable which met :ha eye just inside the gates, he crowd which the evening was expected to bring out did not materialize and the idle gatekeepers did not bave one kind word to her guests lor appreciation of the gallant work death & {| gay in favor of Chicago and their lack of of the firemen who were burned Woeos “po. MANY EXHIBITS The outward appearance CLOSED. of the Fair did | pot suffer in any respect from that of last ¢ Of Sunday, save for the emblems on the engine house and the flags at ! sid raast. Nearly all of the displays made by foreign exhivdors in Manufactures Balding were draped, while many American exbiuils were closed, i fhe building was visited by many people i during the day, however, but most of! thea {| spent their time sitting upon chairs in the jong avenues running through thet pilding and viewing the white canvasses which shui out the coveted sights within, Other buildings bad 1heir usual Sunday crowds, the greatest number of visitors thronging the Art Palace, the Krupp Gub ex hibit and the Convent. The Plalsance whict always holds the Sunday crowds, was & Lusy place all day and impressed upon the con cessionaires more firmly than ever the id that their part the Jair should be Kej open. Music was furuished during and evening by the Chicago, Cincinnati and own State bands, the feature of Day” being much enjoyed appre by moderately-sized crowds. mourning oh of the aflternooe Heroes myo 2 t and ated THE SUSDAY CLONING QUESTION, io rezard to Sunday closing, it Is sac a temporary injunction, obtained several weeks ago by Charles W. Clingman, stockholders in the Exposition a taxpayer of Chicago, one of OW PAD ¥, ALK compelling the gals to be kept open, still st Judge Stein, of the Saperio County, who granted the de be injun i doubt about that, If the ( lelaliy eslied to any vial i, after due ands in tion is still i i consid Of 4% MAY Kp Pear prope: E. Mason, s« The gates will not be Bg inless my « faovit fir HICIor i : Hent desires i Edward Walker, egnl spirit in 3 the side of the Ex} . be > i at amicable the matier relative simply go into This, [ am satisfied, on 4 {i of th which has never easily be done,” i Mr. Cllogman could © tain what course he prog Mason, declared, however, that it an easy matter for the Expositi to override an order of the C« anybody sees fit 10 insist uj ing enforced. That is why he $0 (reely clared that the Expositicn bis would not be closed next Sunday who has 3d Oa u gates will paents 10 3 & CRs wn A BPUILDING IX SOUVENIR COINK A space about twenty feet square io U | rotunda of the Administration Building, di- | rectly under the great dome, was inclosed by | a strong iron fence Monday work was | begun on a model of the United States Treas. ury at Washington, to be made of Columbian | coins and erected within the inclosure, The | work will consume several days, and when | comple, a stroog foree of guards wili guard the precious edifice night and day WORK AND WORKERS, Tue 150 striking boller makers at the Bige low Works in New Haven, resumed their demand for a nine-hour day been granted, Connecticut, has shut down its works indefin | of work, Tue Fuller & Warren Company's stove { plant, at Troy, N. Y., has suspended opoere- | tions owing to dull trade. Five hundred men { are thrown out of work. year round. The operators offer 534 cents, and, it is thought, this will be accepted, Srreninrexpest Srosme has ru'ed that persons coming to the United States in viola tion of the allen contract labor laws, who have paid for their own tickets and have not been assisted by others, cau be deported as well as those who have been assisted, Massachusetts met at Boston, and after ore ganizing the New England Knights of Labor Alliance, adopted resolutions thanking Gov, Altgeld, of 1llinois, for pardoning the ‘‘so- called anarchiste” Tre Mayor of Ishpeming, Michigan, bas recommended that the Council stop all muni- cipal work, other than absolutely necessary, as all the money the city can raise will be needed to support idle miners and their fami- lies during the winter. The Winthorp Mine closed and over 1,000 miners are how idle in Ishpeming alone, and 8,000 in the diotriet, A Creveraxp despatch says that the Finanee Committees of the Lake Carriers’ Association has sealed down the wages of the crews on all boats in the organization because of the dullness of business. The reduction amounts to about 20 cent. *'It will prob. ably te accepted without demur, as the bad condition of lake business is apparent to every one” Tux striking miners nt Pittsburg, Kansas, rejected a Jropaultion made by the mine owners, fty more miners went back to work io the ines of the Rahans and Texas : ‘ompany Litchfield, the largest in the district, in to have ordered the strikers to vacate their houses, Tho company has sent armed funide to their mines to their men oh Jong hn trouble will 0 pany abit he 3 CABLE SPARKS, Ampassanon and Mrs, Bayard will attend the coimpg State tall in London, A British war-sbip bas been ordered to DisasTrovs floode have occurred in the Austrian Tyrol, attended with loss of life, Exreron Wirriax has founded a prize for the Linperinl Yacht Club's annual regatios, Tuere are 120 members of the Italian Ben- ate out of a 10tal of «20 copeerned in the bank Lonp Savisnony bas written an article showing the danger of howe rule from an in- ter-colonial standpoint, M. Lerixe, prefect of the Beine et-Olse, has been appointed to succeed M, Loze in the prefecture oi police in Paris, Tue New Zealand Loan and Mercantile 116 capital amounted to £4,500,000, Tur official report as Hamburg show that the health conditions Muse. Baxcnorr, the well-known and run over, She received severe injuries while the state troops hold the city, in the hospital at Alexandria, Egypt deaths from the disease have occurred. 17 is thought in Singapore that French ag- gression upon Siam will resu.t in lishment of a British country. Mn Grapsroxe denles the published state ment teat he would not stand for re-election in a Midlothian aistrict, Hut would Welsh constituency, Tux Berlin National Zeitung suggests the advisability of the creation of a upper house of the German dehstag, the of which should be nominated by the federated princes members Ix the House of Commons Mr. Redmond moved to increase the Insh representation in the House from #0, as proposed in the bome-rale bill, to 108.the present representa tion, but it was voted dowo—266 to 2:0. Four Persone Killed and Eight Hur a Locomotive in Chicago. Porty-ninth street at Grand Trunk Railroad was the scene tby the crossing four lives were other accident wherely and many people 1ojured ¥ ’ s Gar was run into and A Halstead stroet buried 80 feet 10 Forty-six men and women wen Ihe open patiern und Halstead street car, of the was crowded 4 men were nL standing on the footboards, It was in of of Frank Barnett Unaries Sainecker At Forty-nianth street is 4 netw And The { ondator rk ol tracks wossing has siways been regarded 85 6 dangerous one. A ir Ireight tr ing west had just passed a wueorge Barnett This was taken 88 a WAS clear, BOTs Mi PO had raised ig and Blainecker he st Proviously Barnett had gone ahead ae riod trace hing passenger motioned his in the wal setiger train, and realized ths minent. yol as hie He ai ones lowered (he gallos too late, for the the tracks and fost dintant ON GIRL BYE nD preet oar the passenger train 1 was ranning was Lie a few j« said, and 3 he FORA ¥ found Eh Few of the passengers i any warning o! aociaent I'he of board nears passenger train aay tf coming and JUTE Pe in ume ave themeael vos i 6 i Wers mn jors f those « ar and they fell t i it Lhe it irried with the de fished ihe ground together Iwo ¢ } pieoe f the men were [ri f timber was foreald 4 # throat, breaking his jaw w taken ihe wha * * he 1 ghtfully injured wi one of Lhe The dead ounly mor nen were af Ot met Shs §y and Lae wae ijured were placed io carriages and driven away I'he passenger train was in eharge of Con dastor Joba Kern, Engineer EW Fireman James Camphe Engineer J said that he did pot see the street oar the horses were in Jones and fe ntl front of the train and that could not possibly have stopped io time to avoid the accident Police Captain Ward arrested Engioeer Jones, Fireman Campbell, and a man named Henry Hughes, who was riding in the eab of the engine THE COLD STORAGE FIRE. A Coroner's Jury Holds Four Men sponsib'e for the Disaster. After onsr's jury luvestigating World's eo d storage calamity, reached a The jury held for the grand jury the follow- ing persons : 1). H. Burnham, director of works World's Fair : Fire Marshal Edward Murphy, he Re- the cor. Fair verdict, its prolonged investigation the Shinner, president of the Hercules Iron Come ears to the jury clusion much more quickly than ealled to consider and each peparate case, The verdict was the same in all the cases and road as follows We, the jury, find that the decoased came to their deaths from injuries and burns re ecivel at a firs of the cold storage building at the World's Fair grounds on July 10, 1863, and we, the jury, find from the evidence pre sented that Charles A. MeDooald, Skinner, D, H. Burnbam and Edward W. Murphy be held tothe grand jury for erimi- nal negligence, and there held until dis sharged by the course of law, asin sooo AN EXPRESS ROBBERY. One Thousand Dollars Btolen and Pape and Cotton Substituted for It. W. H. Guick, superintendent of the United States Express Company, and K. D. Gross, of the Pacific, are in Keokuk, Ta , investiga ting a mysterious express robbery, A pack. age nileged to contain $1000 left Chicago via the United States and was transferred to the Pacific at Keokuk and taken out to Promise City, la. its destination. The consignee, Banker N. A. Robertson, was expecting the package and was at the depot when it arrived. At once he detected that something was wrong and the package was opened and found to contain noth ng but brown wrapping paper and cotton. The som! had been raised and the money abstracted «by whom is the problem the officials are trying to solve. mi gy y PZOPLE AND EVANT. Acconping to Canon Farrar, about four thousand clergymen of the Church of Eng- lund ure ovt of employment. Aunothor writer declares that an equal number are miserably underpaid, Tue promotion of men from the ranks to be commissioned ofMoers has not had the most promising sequel in our army. For the fourth time this year the War Department has had cause to pronounce an officer thus promoted a deserter, Arms Tavesma says in the Studio that ‘the eam: ra has had a most healthiul and uselul jufluenes on art and is of the greatest use to painters.” This bigh opinion will be ol un- usual interest to those persons who have con- ble damage 10 real art, Tue chief engineer of the Australo state rallwaye, Henry Graf, 1s in Washington. He has come to Amerien to make a special study of American Hallwa systems, He is a young man still in bis twenties, He has official let- ters to many high officials on American rail. ways, err Gra! considers American more solidly built than those of Europe, and the time made much fast r; while the Eu- { precautions sgalnst socidents, Dn. Reveex Aroripoe Guiro, who has just resigned as librarian of Brown Univer- sity, ha; served his alma mater fa thie place for lorty-six years, His term of continuous that of any other offi. cer Brown bas ever bad, vxXcepling oniy the fate Professor Lincoln, To fil the vacancy esused by Dr. Guild's retirement the visory commities recommended the election Henry I. Koopman, who has served in University, the Columbian college snd Rutgers College IDraries, His Highness the Maharajah of Kapur thala who is now in Japan headed for the the World's Fair, is a petty Hindoo polen- tate (maharajab is Baperit for “great king’ but a very gorgeous one, for he is wi althy in the Orient’'s barbaric pearl and gold, and Wosrs one or more riugs on every finger and on Lis thumbs as a slight iodieation of his fondness for jeweiry, He is rather old snd, uelike most Eastern princess, not very well educated, He is accompanied by num- erous r tinue, but curdously enough he under the direction of an excursion agency. D. C. Girmax, president « {the John Hop kins University, Baltimore, has presented, in behalf of the trustees 0 the Unis to the American Bible Boclely. a facsimile the Chaldean flood recently recon structed by Professor Haupt, The tablet is a plaster cast from as modern reproduction in ¢ ay of the so-called Izdubar or Gligamesh legends, common'y known under the name of the Babylonian Nimrod epic. It contains the cuneiform text of the Chaldean secount of the deluge, as restorsd by Prolessor Paul Haupt, The text is based on thirteen frag. ments. which were found during the British exenvations in the valley of the Euphrates and Tigris aud are now presery. patment of oriental antiq British museum, Loadon, Tue been finished in colored plaster, & the appearanos of a real cunesfora let. ‘The tabict contalox, in six 851 lines of cuneiform writing. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES fade yu is ersity, fale! fu the Gr at ease ities the ave as to give day tab iummns mas, k in Bellevue Hos ue fever Epwars pital, Nev fatally © pat two jured intry dninng § 100,000, ss at Mansfield, Ohio, were days ago, rilical ooh ating cheese several victims are In & West Richmond ie Mm He Sire Av v8, A BUREY coh d her two children nil threes were ih Jobn Gang al kK by a traie, and #iant.y killed elevated Coney were A yLatrors st the station of th milway at West Brighton Beach, jslana, collapsed. About ten perscns injured, one severely, of Vairville, a suburb of BL John, New Brunswick, was almost entirely destroyed by fire Eighty families are home jess, It was burned twice before, Mes Eave Four, st Pomeroy, lows, died. There eoven likely to die rying need for food, the supply hausted, with the exception of a ooked hams Tbe village a victim of the tornado are BX Or There is a ex few un. other victims being A Cuzsarsaxse and Ohio Railroad excur- 4 train ron into an open switch and ool 4 with a freight train sf Newport, Ken tucky. Albert Lang was killed and seven other persons dangerously injured. It is be lioved that sume person purposely opened the switoh, Apors R000 pounds of dynamite in & storage house in South Denver, Colorado, exploded. There was a gen ral destruction of window panes, and many doors were blown from their hinges. Two men are sup- posed to have been Llosn to pieces The cause of the accident is not known, but it is supposed to have been the work of tramps, A NEW AIRSHIP. Jobo Evans, of Shamokin, Says He W 11 8ail to Chicago and to Europe. John Evans, a mechanic of Shamokin, Pa., has almost completod the construction of an nirship which he claims will revolutionize He proposes 10 give serial navigation. his Agricoltural cago. Then he will sail to Europe. Mr Evans bas been at work on his inven. tion for more than five yoars, months ago when he made a trial ascension, Toe balloon will consist of a cigarshaped gas chamber twenty feet in length and meas point. Suspended from this will be a oar, of wire. It will also be twenty feet long and a propelior, which will be worked by a power. Bim to the Fair, mmm III sn TORNADO IN ITALY. m————— Many Houses Gverthrown and the Peo~ ple Killed Dead Bodies Recovered. A tornado swept down suddenly on Voge bors and Casteggio, in Piedmont. Hundreds of buildings were wrecked. In one section ol Voghern hardly a house was left standing. Not a structure in either town was leit in- tact. Hundesds of persons were injured, The number of dead Is not known, as the bodies are buried in the ruins. Only seven bodies have beet recovered. The military have been called out to help in the work of rescue and ambulance corps | Epitome of News Gleaned from Various Farte of the Btate, Beves inmates of Markey's } ourding Bouse | at Plitsburg suffered symptoms of poisoning | after eating supper. Doctors were undecided | whether to attribute it to tomatoes or coffee, Parnick J. the Homestead poisoner, retracted his alleged confession ex- culpating Dempsey, declaring he i “pulled” into making it, { Tux Bethlehem Iron | Midvale Steel Company GALLAGHER, had been and the receive bg Govern Company ment contracts for ordinances and forgings, | amounting to nearly £100,000, By a fall of top siate in a Pittston colliery two men were killed and a tuird fatally io. i jured, Tue Allegmeiner held its William | Lenger, Tisch, of Wilkesbarre, to the Northeastern Baengerfest in New York, The prize concert took place in the afternoon, SBaengerbund snnual convention ul Wilkesha: re, of Reading, and Louis elacted delegates ware As the fron and steel manufacturers and agreed on a seale at Pitts. idle workmen have not burg, thousands of workmen ure still and the situation is serious, Tuomas A. Bearox died from a copperhead Annie f bite ut Greeush Braut, of bitten by a snake of the nage ITE. Ridgeview Park same kind, Ws Tas 1 started its station from Athens, sigty-s A Brare League of nited States Line pumping Ix mlies KWAY, Pipe company at Parsons, oil Koeleyites was Orgnie ized at PVittsi arg. LutnEnay ministes it Ye and re Provi Tae ninth rk vised the isn Of the Cumber. innd Valley Legan of Williams" Gros Frax former manager, is defendant in Mrs Marie Decca a tis property in Harrisburg which she alleges was with 1# Leow Carisma, her huss the ive pought by Chrisman in his own Dane her funds Tue Executive Committee of the Pennsyi- fixed § “nie iin Demoeratic Boelety General Assaoming drowned in # The of t: "We } bite Jomx BE Pennsylvania Bailrond at Gallagher was ext rue y th A Gis express al J wiv itier Ving injuries Als the Miners’ H Eat Macs i Mack sing 8 0 edie hands and both fos amputated thrown from a sleigh while ery fain last winter and was ’ his fingers and toes were ampuia time, Lut i further was found neosssary 10 perform amputations, as the frozen hands and feet cannot be healed up A FrcrLiAn ease and the fir t of the kind in Allegheny county Las desded Judge Ewing. W. J. Kerr, a farmer of Plum Township, this spring had i just been by value a neighbor, He to the township the value of the sheep, but the amount Was re- The court decides that the money should be paid out of the dog and sheep tax and orders & peremptory mandamus to issue to the Treasurer of Plum Township, Tux veterans in Rutherford EB | Hayes, of the Pennsylvania G, AR, at Get some sheep killed by the dogs of presented his bill or rased, Camp tysburg. spent a quiet Sunday. ment Chaplain Rayres, transport coal | Maxy Delaware County industrial estab, | lishments have closed temporarily awaiting better trade. | Tax Cononetr’s jury investigating the ex- | plosion at the Susquebanna Coal Company's slope at Nanticoke in which five men were kilied, centured the colliery officials. Wares the family went to get Mrs. John ! Kern, of Erie, ready for hor husband's ian eral they found she had died of griel. 20,000 MEN IDLE. been Colorado Merchants Countermand 812,- 000,000 of Orders. The closing down of many silver mines, | *melters and the reduction in working forees { of coal mines, raliways and manufactaries in the State because of the reduction in the price of sliver has oaused a deplorable eon dition of affairs among the laboring classes, It is estimated there are 10.000 men in Denver unable to secure employment. There are 20,000 men in outside cities In the same eondition, one thousand of whom are making way to Denver, where they will become = public charge if conditions do not speedily change, A conservative estimate of the men discharged by raiiways, mines business houses, and factories since the silver panic started, place the number at from 12,000 to 15,000, It is niso estimated that Colorado, Utah, Montana and New Mexico merchants have countermanded orders on New York whole- sale houses for goods during this time amount. ing to over $12,000,000, Taz Dalian will institute THE SPY IN TIME OF PEACL ————— How 8 German Officer Kisks His Life in Kuassia., My friend Captain Zinnowitz came 10 disper with me one night in Berlin, He wus invited particularly to meet Heming- ton, nnd spent uw long evening te. gether talking about his us ag asificer the Prussinn army, | koew that he had been into Lussisan Poland several for benefit of his government, and therefore drew the conversation on to the best means vi succeeding at thie delicate work, “When I go into Poland,” said he, oy ams not an army officer any longer; | dress my hair differently, become simply plain Mr. who is seeking employment As engineer, I have, of 4 snail provincial German town, from which al} mv letters come, and where 1 have a trusted friend ready to answer all ques tions in regurd my and identity should the secret we Work of times the andl a hydraulic course, an address In 10 occupation Hussian s make inquiries in recerd vear | was instrac ted to report npon a line of railway projected at a certain it in Poland, and for that reason fired a Jew “ pilot me went for 10 oe We together sone is when the Jew thint there tance, were me @6vi- WoL train he sione, two policemen of the dently on our tracks, and go no furth that | went on the ned off on next stall from the TIIWaAY the iarthest station, or Lhe WoOus I had not gon when the what 1 had tO Grin EDOwW make i and therefore remarked that | was wood, “and had to inspect the forests of the mn ight Or hood, lL pon this, one : there were n of them sa y forests in the direction which 1 was gol and that I must ing, ompany them to I objected, been informed of and stored 1 been 42 t + railway | had to naa ail { the ug been take that was ins CREE THO allowed Ang them to let x on to the next town, by tent. A AITIVa episodes of the same ment suggested to me knowing md tion of this work, and when [ see you next vear 1 will tell you some more ” Neither Remington nor | ever saw him again. He spoke of his adventures as as though he were recounting some steeple-chase espisnde, and re garded quite as naturally that be should of being hanged from day Hs we of the and par. de. —{ Potltoney go 0 Died Like a Hero. A pavvy, working at the top of ene of in a manner which showed a spirit of heroic presence of mind that deserves to go on record, His duties were simply to warn bis be out fo “Look sent up emptied by a shout of below.” One unhappy day ‘Bill the banker, ™ incautiously stepped too close to the edge, his foot Slipped, and he knew that he must be dashed from side to side of But his mates? I he screamed. the unususl noise would cause to the foot of the Bill never lost his nerve. The signal “Look out below” had barely reached them before his mangled remains were Irving at the feet of the men whose lives would have been imperilled bad any in- voluntary call escaped from the falling man, {New York Mercury, se - A Big Alligator, One of the largest of the Southern visitors to the Columbian Exposition ar. | rived the other evening, and is now the t of a South Water street firm. visitor ie not only the largest, but is one of the oldest natives of Louisiane.
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